The Berkeley County Museum will present their annual Colonial Day Festival on September 28, 2024 at Old Santee Canal Park in Moncks Corner. The event includes living history presentations, historical lectures, tours of Fort Fair Lawn, vendors, and food trucks. SC Humanities supported this event with a Mini Grant.
The Colonial Day Festival is the Berkeley County Museum’s major annual community engagement event. The goals of the event include raising awareness of the Museum, Fort Fair Lawn, and Berkeley County’s Revolutionary era roles; increasing Museum memberships; and sustaining Berkeley County history through enduring partnerships.
The family-friendly event will take place from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at Old Santee Canal State Park (950 Stony Landing Rd., Moncks Corner, SC). Tickets are $10/person, $5/child or student with ID, 6 and under free.
History will be highlighted through experiential, hands-on activities of a dozen living history demonstrators, SC Battleground Trust tours of Fort Fair Lawn, nature walks, and history lectures about the arrival of Huguenots in Berkeley County and the Marquis de Lafayette and the Southern Campaign. The exhibit American Revolution Experience will also be on display at the Berkeley County Museum; the exhibit features 40 panels telling stories of unknown Revolutionary era women, African Americans, and Native Americans.
The mission of the Berkeley County Museum is to collect, preserve, interpret, display, and provide education about artifacts representative of Berkeley County’s history, people, institutions, culture, and development. Learn more: https://www.berkeleymuseum.org/.
The mission of SC Humanities is to enrich the cultural and intellectual lives of all South Carolinians. Established in 1973, this 501(c)3 organization is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of community leaders from throughout the state. It presents and supports literary initiatives, lectures, exhibits, festivals, publications, oral history projects, videos, and other humanities-based experiences that directly or indirectly reach more than 250,000 citizens annually. South Carolina Humanities receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities as well as corporate, foundation and individual donors. The National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom.
